The Collaborative International Dictionary
Irrigate \Ir"ri*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Irrigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Irrigating.] [L. irrigatus, p. p. of irrigare to irrigate: ir- in + rigare to water; prob. akin to E. rain. See Rain.]
To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
(Agric.) To water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.
(Med.) To rinse (a wound, infected area, etc.) with a flow or spray of a liquid.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: irrigate)
Usage examples of "irrigated".
He crossed one field, then another, climbing through barbed wire fences, his beer and Slim Jims hi a bag cradled carefully hi one arm, and, traversing a mile of fallow, though once irrigated, earth, he reached the sage.
His personal earthen property, on which he might have grazed these animals, consisted of one irrigated acre around his house, five sageland acres in the Coyote Arroyo section of Milagro, one and seven-tenths acres of sageland and sparse gramma grass near the north-south highway, and the seven-tenths of an acre on the west side where his beans were growing.
Three bisected bladders were also irrigated with a fresh solution of urea of the same strength.
Three bisected bladders were also irrigated with a fresh infusion of raw meat.
Lastly, the summit of a bladder which had been previously irrigated for 21 hrs.
In these specimens, as in those irrigated with the salts of ammonia, the nuclei seemed to have increased both in size and solidity, but they were not measured.
One of the specimens which was not affected was then irrigated with the mixed solution of the nitrate and phosphate of ammonia, and after only 25 m.
It was then irrigated with a few drops of a solution of one part of urea to 218 of water.
The second summit, before being irrigated, had been somewhat affected by the surrounding water, for the spherical glands were not quite uniform in appearance.
But there were always men like Potato Brumbaugh who saw not the disappointing canal but the irrigated field, and if it cost an extra two thousand dollars to build the canal, that cost was nothing—it was absolutely nothing—if from it came water that ultimately would irrigate a thousand acres for a hundred years.
So I’m thinking seriously of buying the Karpitz place north of town, with its forty irrigated acres, for about three thousand dollars.
And any hard-working newcomer who bought irrigated land in the years from 1896 through 1910 acquired a bargain whose value would multiply with the years.
In the years when he sold irrigated farmland, he had learned to be at the station whenever settlers arrived, for he had found that in their first hours in Centennial they were likely to require his reassurance in a variety of ways, and if he signed them up early, they stayed signed.
He did give the Takemotos eighty acres of good irrigated land and would have done the same for Tranquilino if the Mexican had been at hand during his final days.
And men irrigated, but the wind sucked up the water almost before it could seep into the ground.